Jason Gay: Sochi and the Power of Michael Sam

Russia Should Be Reminded It Has a Lot of Catching Up to Do

I heard about Michael Sam just minutes after arriving in Sochi's airport on Monday afternoon. Which had a nice energy to it, considering that these Winter Olympics are taking place in a country which has shown itself to be hostile to gay people, to the point that it passed a law prohibiting "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" around minors, a discriminatory act that undermined these Games before they even began. There has been speculation about which Olympic athlete or athletes might...